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Procedural Cities as Active Simulators for Planning
- Source :
- Urban Planning, Gaming, Simulations, and Planning: Physical and Digital Technologies for Public Participation in Urban Planning
- Publication Year :
- 2022
- Publisher :
- Cogitatio, 2022.
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Abstract
- Modelling a 3D city poses an interesting challenge. To create a virtual city, a road pattern has to be designed and a large number of buildings need to be generated. Every urban place has a road network, often a superimposed pattern plan that serves a population density and buildings which follow statutory rules. This patterned behaviour of the city is why it is possible to develop rules or “computational instructions,” to generate city models. In this article, we are going to discuss how to use procedural modelling and CityEngine, a rule-based application commonly used in the movie industry and gaming to produce vast realistic cityscapes, for regional and urban planning via an urban analytics approach. Unlike cinema’s imaginary worlds, cities have real-life population dependencies that need to be modelled for the development of planning scenarios. The goal is then to use the generative properties of the procedural modelling approach, along with population prediction models, to create informed 3D city scenarios. Instead of designing solutions, the user can use interactive parameters to affect the 3D model globally, thus enabling virtual cities to become active simulators for planning. Using urban analytics and generative environments, procedural cities may be able to create a “teaser” of different versions of how the city would look like in the future.
- Subjects :
- Landscaping and area planning
Städtebau, Raumplanung, Landschaftsgestaltung
model
Raumplanung und Regionalforschung
Area Development Planning, Regional Research
3D cities
digital twins
procedural modelling
urban generators
urban modelling
urban planning
virtuelle Realität
Modell
Stadtplanung
documentation
ddc:070
Urban Studies
Interactive, electronic Media
Stadt
neue Technologie
town
new technology
virtual reality
Dokumentation
Publizistische Medien, Journalismus,Verlagswesen
ddc:710
interaktive, elektronische Medien
News media, journalism, publishing
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 21837635
- Volume :
- 7
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Urban Planning
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....03b207e7d1b918b83e06d966f052edb0